Genesis 1
1 In the beginning God created (make something out of nothing) the heavens and the earth (land).
2 And the earth was without form (shapeless), and void (empty); and darkness was on the face of the deep (abyss, sea). And the Spirit of God was soft, relaxed on the face of the waters.
3 And God said, be Light: and there was light.
4 And God saw the light, that it was good (excellent, valuable): and God divided the light from the darkness.
5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness He called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
6 And God said, Be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and divide the waters from the waters.
7 And God made the expanse and divided the waters under the expanse from the waters above the expanse: and it was exactly right.
8 And God called the expanse Heavens. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
9 And God said, Waters under the heaven gather to one place, and let the dry land be seen: and it was exactly right.
10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathered waters He called seas: and God saw that it was good (excellent, valuable).
11 And God said, Earth sprout grass, the herb (green plants) sowing seed, and the tree making fruit after his kind, whose seed was in itself on the earth: and it was exactly right.
12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself after his kind: and God saw that it was good (excellent, valuable).
13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.
14 And God said, Be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
15 And let them be for lights in the expanse of the heaven to give light on the earth: and it was exactly right.
16 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: He made the stars also.
17 And God set them in the expanse of the heaven to give light on the earth,
18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good (excellent, valuable).
19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
20 And God said, Waters spring forth abundantly the moving creature that has life, and fowl to fly above the earth in the open expanse of heaven.
21 And God created great whales, and every living creature that moves, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good (excellent, valuable).
22 God blessed (make holy, pronounce divine favor) them and said, Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and moving thing, and animals of the earth after his kind: and it was exactly right.
25 And God made the living creatures of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and everything that moves on the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good (excellent, valuable).
26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them rule over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the animals, and over all the earth, and over every moving thing that moves on the earth.
27 So God created (shaped, formed) man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.
28 And God blessed them, and God said to them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill, (not refill) the earth (raising families multiplies His eternal glory), and subdue it: and rule over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.
29 And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb (green plant) bearing seed, which is on the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; it will be to you for food.
30 And to every animal of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to everything that moves on the earth, in which is life (soul), I have given every green herb for food: and it was so.
31And God saw everything that He made, and behold, it was very (exceedingly) good (excellent, valuable). And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
*(An aleph toph, the first and last letters in the Hebrew alphabet are seen but untranslated, often throughout the Old Testament. It is the Hebrew of alpha and omega. God’s signature.
Genesis 2
1 The heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host (that which goes forth) of them.
2 And on the seventh day God ended His work which he had made; and He rested on the seventh day from all His work that He had made.
3 And God blessed the seventh day and sanctified (set it apart) it: because in it He rested from all His work that God created to make (JP Greene).
4 These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,
5 And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there wasn’t a man to till the ground.
6 But a mist went from the land and watered the whole face of the land.
7 And the LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life;
and man became a living soul.
8 And the LORD God planted a garden eastward in Eden (pleasure, delight, luxury) and there he put the man whom he had formed.
9 And out of the ground the LORD God grew every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good (excellent) and evil (bad).
10 And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from there it was divided and became four heads.
11 The name of the first is Pison: it surrounds the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold:
12 and the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone.
13 And the name of the second river is Gihon: it that surrounds the whole land of Ethiopia.
14 And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: it goes toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates.
15 And the LORD God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to dress (serve) it and to keep/guard it.
16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat:
17 But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, do not eat of it: for in the day that you eat of it dying (spiritual death) you will die (physical death). (Contact with God who is life, is broken)
18 And the LORD God said, It is not good for the man to be alone; I will make him a helper that fits him.
19 And out of the ground the LORD God formed every animal of the field, and every bird of the air; and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them: and whatever Adam called every living creature, that was its name.
20 And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found a helper that fit him.
21 And the LORD God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept: and He took one of his ribs (side),
and closed up the flesh underneath;
22 And the rib, that the LORD God had taken from man, He made (built) a woman, and brought her to the man.
23 And Adam said, This is now at last bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she will be called Woman, because she was taken out of Man.
24 Therefore a man will leave his father and his mother, and cleave (cling, hold tight) to his wife: and they will be one flesh.
25 And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.
Genesis 3
1 And the serpent was more subtle (shrewd, crafty, sly) above every animal of the field that the LORD God made. And he said to the woman, Has God said, You shall not eat from any tree of the garden?
2 And the woman said to the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:
3 but of the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God said, Don’t eat of it, or touch it, or you will die.
4 And the serpent said to the woman, You won’t surely die:
5 For God knows that in the day you eat of it, then your eyes will be opened, and you will be as gods, knowing good and evil.
6 And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of its fruit and ate and gave to her husband with her; and he ate.
7 And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons.
8 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking up and down in the garden in the breeze of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the face of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.
9 And the LORD God called to Adam, and said to him, Where are you?
10 And he said, I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
11 And He said, Who told you that you were naked? Have you eaten of the tree, I commanded you not to eat?
12 And the man said, The woman whom you gave me, she gave me of the tree and I ate.
13 And the LORD God said to the woman, What have you done? And the woman said, The serpent deceived me, and I ate.
14 And the LORD God said to the serpent, Because you did this you are cursed more than all animals, more than every animal of the field; on your belly you will go, and you will eat dust all the days of your life:
15 And I will put hatred between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed; He will bruise your head, and you will bruise His heel.
16 To the woman He said, I will greatly multiply your sorrow (+ pain, hardship, labor, toil) and your conception (pregnancy). In sorrow you will bear children. Your desire (longing, craving) will be toward your husband (man) and he will rule over you.
17 And to the man he said, Because you listened to the voice of your wife, and have eaten of the tree, that I commanded you, saying, Don’t eat from it, the ground is cursed because of you; in sorrow you will eat of it all the days of your life;
18 Thorns and thistles will it bring for you; and you will eat the herb of the field;
19 By the sweat of your face you will eat bread (+food grain), until you return to the ground; for out of it you were taken: for you are dust, and to dust you will return. (cut off from God who is life)
20 And the man called his wife's name Eve; because she became the mother of all living.
21 And the LORD God made for the man and his wife coats of skin and clothed them.
22 And the LORD God said, Behold, the man has become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, so he won’t reach out his hand, and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever (in this prideful condition).
23 Therefore the LORD God sent him out of the garden of Eden, to work the ground from where he was taken.
24 And He drove the man out; and He placed (set to dwell) at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubim (masculine, awesome 4-winged beings of light), and a flaming sword whirling (to turn) around, to guard the way (back to) the tree of life.